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Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009 | 2 a.m.
Sun Coverage
Beyond the Sun
The Lied of the children’s museum, Lied Animal Shelter, Lied Library at UNLV, Lied Ambulatory Care Center at UMC and a host of other facilities in Southern Nevada and across the country is Ernst F. Lied (pronounced LEED), a Nebraska car dealer who moved to Las Vegas in the 1950s and made a fortune in real estate.
Lied sensed that Las Vegas was set to boom, sold his dealership and headed west. He was eventually joined here by his business associate Christina Hixson. Hixson had worked as Lied’s secretary during his car dealing days, but her role grew to the point that she became essentially a business partner of Lied’s, according to reports.
When Lied died, he left Hixson as sole trustee of the Lied Foundation Trust, which has donated millions of dollars to causes in Nevada, Nebraska and elsewhere. The foundation declined to provide Mr. Sun with additional information on its work. But Hixson once told a reporter: “Mr. Lied left no specific instruction on how the money was to be distributed. We are careful to use the money in ways that will honor him.”
Outside Nevada, the trust has donated to the Lied Center of Kansas, a performing arts venue; the Lied Performance Center in Lincoln; and the Hixson-Lied Auditorium at Creighton University, among other facilities and causes.
Questions for Mr. Sun should be sent to page8@lasvegassun.com.
How is this article important? Yish, quality please not quantity.
If you're going to write an article about "Lied" then go into depth about the man behind the name; his impact in shaping the Las Vegas valley, how Lied Discovery Museum came about and what is the future of Lied and the Valley?
Same thoughts from starbeams, too.
The name of the real estate company please. If Ms.
Hixson was his secretary in Nebraska and they moved to Las Vegas then she was more than his "partner". There was a Hixson who was a stockholder in the Thunderbird Hotel-Casino. Which town was this car dealership located in Nebraska would answer the where. Fairbury, NE is the trading center for many stateline counties in Kansas such as Washington County where the Lambrier Kennels are located. These kennels ship across the U. S. puppies and send medicine along with the drivers in case the puppies need doctoring before the puppies are delivered to the pet stores that sell puppies for Lambrier at Mahaska, Ks.
What do you all expect, its' a 300 word byline story. They can't fit that much into it. If you want to know more about Mr. Lied, do a google search.